Lance Vance

Lance Vance (1958-1986) was an American helicopter pilot who worked as a cocaine dealer in Miami, Florida alongside his brother Victor Vance during the early 1980s. Vance later teamed up with Tommy Vercetti to avenge his brother's death at the hands of Ricardo Diaz in 1986, but he would grow paranoid and betray Vercetti, leading to his death at his friend's hands.

Biography
Lance Vance was born in 1958 in Miami, Florida to a white mother and a black father who immigrated from the Dominican Republic. He was the younger brother of Victor Vance and the older brother of Pete Vance, and his older brother Victor joined the US Army to pay for treatments for Pete's asthma. Vance was treated as a little brother by Victor Vance, and he was bullied at school for his strange name. Vance would later become a member of his brother's criminal organization in 1984, and he assisted him in his rise to power as the leader of a major cocaine-dealing drug syndicate. In 1986, his brother was killed by Ricardo Diaz's men during a drug deal with Tommy Vercetti and some New York City mobsters, and Lance Vance decided to embark on a quest of revenge against his brother's killers. Vance worked with Vercetti to infiltrate Diaz's group, but Vance foiled Vercetti's infiltration plot when he decided to make an attempt to kill Diaz by himself, and he was instead captured by Diaz's men and tortured at a junkyard in Little Havana. Vance became Vercetti's right-hand man, but he abused drugs and became paranoid. Vance called Vercetti and complained, saying that he did not feel that he was getting a fair slice and that Vercetti constantly humiliated him in front of the other gang members. Eventually, Vance had enough of Vercetti's criticisms, especially when Vercetti said that his gang was his own organization and not a partnership. Vance decided to help Sonny Forelli and his mobsters when they tried to whack Vercetti at his mansion, forcing Vercetti to kill him on the roof of the mansion.